Articles

Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Eurozone Crisis Was Caused More By Reckless Lending Than By Reckless Spending

Dec 5, 2016

Remedies have failed to produced growth and reduce indebtedness because they’re focused on protecting toxic behavior by banks in Europe’s core countries

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Trump Election and the Future of U.S. Global Leadership

Nov 28, 2016

Surviving the geopolitical and economic challenges of the coming years requires a world order less vulnerable to the vagaries of U.S. elections

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The Global Trade Slowdown is both True and Non-trivial

Nov 2, 2016

Economists offer widely different explanations for the decline in trade between nations, in a debate that remains unresolved but is increasingly urgent

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Yellen Challenges Economists Amid Elusive Great Recovery

Oct 24, 2016

Like the Great Depression and the stagflation of the ’70s, the anemic growth of the U.S. economy can’t be understood or remedied without changes in economists’ thinking

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Johnson: The Fed is losing its aura of expertise

Sep 30, 2016

Past failures, present uncertainty, and a challenging political environment have vastly complicated the central bank’s task, says Institute President Rob Johnson

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New Evidence Shows Gender Inequality in Top Incomes

Sep 29, 2016

Research by INET grantees Atkinson, Casarico and Voitchovsky shows that women are starkly underrepresented in top earning brackets across a range of different countries

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‘Advanced Microeconomics for the Critical Mind’ Returns in October

Sep 20, 2016

We are happy to announce that we are offering a second run of the online course which aims to introduce graduate students and interested persons generally to the basic methods and topics of standard microeconomics as taught at the Ph.D. level — with a bit of ‘attitude’!